LibriVox recording of The Wound Dresser, by Walt Whitman. Read by R. S. Steinberg. The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post. Read in English by Winston Tharp Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia hill country. His weapons are keen observation, logic, and a fundamentalist’s belief in the victory of good over evil. Post’s historical mysteries have been favorably compared to...
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LibriVox recording of A YANKEE GIRL AT FORT SUMTER, by ALICE TURNER CURTIS. Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising, and things start to change. Through these changes, Silvia gets to know the world better: from Estrella, her maid, she starts to understand what it is to be a slave, from her unjust teacher she learns that not...
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LibriVox recording of Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard Glazier. Read in English by TyroneS and TimoleonWash. Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to his capture at the battle of Brandy Station. (Summary by Jonathan Limebrook) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox...
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A short audio promo for the Librivox audio book version of "The First Battle of Bull Run" by General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
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LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection. What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had ’six’ in the title – in any language. The result? LibriVox in all its glorious diversity: sixty-six recordings of poetry, song, short stories, folktales, science fiction, historical documents, travel, art, science and mathematics, in Dutch, English, French and German, from Euclid to the Ziegfeld Follies. (Summary by Ruth Golding) For full details of...
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LibriVox recording of The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis. Read in English by volunteer readers. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War. (Intro...
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LibriVox recording of Recollections of the Civil War by Charles Anderson Dana. Read in English by Jennifer Dorr; Larry Wilson; Denise Nordell; Savannah; Ernst Schnell; jabc1950; Ravi Shankar; KHand; Lynne Thompson; asterix; sbnelson; Paul Simonin; Zachary Brewster-Geisz; Greg Giordano Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes of historical, political, and personal reminiscences which have been...
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LibriVox recording of The Secret Service by Albert Richardson. Read in English by Maria Kasper; Greg Giordano Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the American south, reporting incognito on the growing secession crisis in that region. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, he attached himself to the Union armies as a war correspondent, sending dispatches from the fields of battle for the...
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LibriVox recording of The Story of Abraham Lincoln, by Mary A. Hamilton. Read by John Lieder. In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky, his youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of...
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LibriVox recording of The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 , by Leander Stillwell. Read by Sue Anderson Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty "to help save the Nation;" but, as with many other young men, his Patriotism was tinged with bravura: "the idea of staying at home and turning over senseless clods on the farm with the cannon...
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LibriVox recording of Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals by Charles Edward Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), awakening the whole world to the harsh conditions of slavery. She wrote 30 other successful books depicting life in early...
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LibriVox recording of With Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty. Read in English by Ryan Cherrick; Khaghbboommm Vincent Wingfield is the son of a wealthy Virginian planter. When the country goes to war, he enlists in the cavalry, and sees action under the various generals commanding the army in and near Virginia. He has several private adventures as well, including a personal enemy, prison escape, rescue of a young lady, spying expedition, and recovery of a stolen slave. He rises in rank in the...
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LibriVox recording of Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son by Robert E. Lee, Jr.. Read in English by David Wales The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army officer. Published in 1905. Note: in many of the letters the recipient's name is printed after General Lee's signature; the White House is not that in Washington but General Lee's elder son's house in Virginia. - Summary...
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LibriVox recording of The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World by Edward Gilliat. Read in English by David Wales. Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but which listeners today may find offensive. Summary by david wales. For...
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Librivox recording of LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014 by Various Authors. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, military history, humor, philosophy, nature and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org...
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LibriVox recording of The Northern Spy by J. Thomas Warren. Read in English by John; Colleen McMahon; Gary J. Conover The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in the conquering of South Carolina. The novel was very popular, so much so that allegedly Northern Spy apples were named for the hero of the story. - Summary by A. Gramour For further information, including links to online text, reader...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, espionage, civil war, South Carolina, Confederacy, Union, general sherman
LibriVox recording of Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman. Read in English by David Wales This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for the North. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as...
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LibriVox recording of Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman. Read in English by David Wales This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for the North. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known...
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LibriVox recording of A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce. Read in English by William A Crenshaw; BettyB Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his life without question. The second is about a soldier who falls asleep on guard duty. A mistake punishable by death in Civil War times. - Summary by Bill2147 For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggles with hunger, illness, fear, and the perils of combat; as well as his pride of service, love of comrades, and courage in the face of overwhelming odds (summary by D. Leeson). For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
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LibriVox recording of A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie by Joseph Benjamin Polley. Read in English by Dale Latham; asterix; Denise Nordell Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal regret is that he could not be one of those whose paroles at Appomattox are patents incontestable that they fought for the right as they saw...
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LibriVox recording of The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler. "The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his friends are in the forefront of the tale. (Summary from the Foreword) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted By Death by Theodore Winthrop. Read in English by David Wales Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. He wrote two articles for The Atlantic Monthly, the first of an intended series on the nascent civil war. He was killed in the Battle Of Big Bethel in June 1861 before he...
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LibriVox recording of Up from Slavery , by Booker T. Washington. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities...
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LibriVox recording of The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; Jim Locke; Alan Mapstone; Colleen McMahon; Rita Boutros; Tomas Peter; Adrian Stephens; Piotr Nater; J. M. Smallheer; Devorah Allen; Valerie Marino; Greg Giordano; Meg Huskin; ToddHW; April6090; thestorygirl; mleigh; IlliniThom; Sawyer Rewis; Sebastian LaVine This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and...
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LibriVox recording of Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 by Susan R. Jervey; Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel; Mary Rhodes Henagan (Waring). Read in English by David Wales Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan. With two contemporary reports...
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LibriVox recording of Ulysses S. Grant, by Owen Wister. Read by David Wales. Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is only 145 pages in a little pamphlet size. The author is famous for his stories of the Old West, but he also wrote a substantial body of nonfiction literature. (Summary by David Wales) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 by Various Authors. Read by LibriVox Volunteers A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass gardening, military history, humor, climate change, travel and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant. Read by Jim Clevenger. "In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in...
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LibriVox recording of Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray by William Henry Harrison Murray. Read in English by David Wales Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, dogs, death, short stories, American civil war, Westerns, horses, outdoors,...
LibriVox recording of With Fire and Sword, by Samuel H.M. Byers. Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of this book belonged to a regiment that seemed to be always in the midst of great experiences. It was, in fact, one of the few regiments that absolutely fought themselves out of existence. It was mustered in a thousand strong; it lost seven...
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An imaginary day with the great gray poet, Walt Whitman, the voice of American transcendental poetry, popularizer of free verse in bold, vibrant, optimistic language. Vignettes of one day in the latter part of his life with selections of some of his greatest poems woven into the narrative. Text of A Day with Walt Whitman: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36305
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LibriVox recording of Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 By Ward Hill Lamon edited by Dorothy Lamon by Ward Hill Lamon. Read in English by John Greenman Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very existence of the United States, which was already falling apart. Ward Hill Lamon was, in effect, his first Secret Service agent, his security guard and this biography, heavily edited by his daughter,...
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LibriVox recording of Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 5) by John Hay; John George Nicolay. Read in English by Jim Locke; Owen Cook; MaryAnnS; Mike Manolakes; Denise Nordell; Ciufi Galeazzi Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 5 chronicles Lincoln's life from November 1861 through August 1862. (Summary adapted from...
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LibriVox recording of Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 7) by John Hay; John George Nicolay. Read in English by MaryAnn; Jim Locke; Ciufi Galeazzi; Owen Cook; Warren Kati; Shasta Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 7 chronicles Lincoln's life from 1862, including the major battles in the American Civil War that year....
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LibriVox recording of Escape From The Confederacy by Benjamin F. Hasson. Read in English by David Wales. Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short book points up Hasson’s ingenuity in overcoming obstacles to his flight to Union lines but also shows an insight into the lives of Southern blacks, both slave and free. This oral...
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LibriVox recording of Half a Century by Jane Grey Swisshelm. Read in English by Pamela Nagami In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a congressional sex scandal. Frustrated by what she saw as the Massachusetts senator's surrender to the Southern Slave Power, she published an article alleging...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, feminism, civil war, Daniel Webster, abolitionists, fugitive slave...
LibriVox recording of A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry; pmstrahm; DrPGould; Angelique G. Campbell; William Allan Jones; Kathrine Engan; Colleen McMahon; Kathleen Moore; GentleJim; Larry Wilson After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all proportion to the facts. She was viewed...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, civil war, Uncle Tom's cabin, ophelia, simon legree
LibriVox recording of The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher; D. H. Fletcher. Read for English by Paul Hampton. The purpose of this sketch is to keep green the memory of that little band of men known as Company A, of the Second Illinois Cavalry, who fought in the Civil War. (From the Preface) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for...
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LibriVox recording of The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 by William E. Barton. Read in English by PhyllisV Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian...
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LibriVox recording of Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith by W. S. Gilbert. Read in English by ToddHW; Alan Mapstone; Larry Wilson; Son of the Exiles; Sonia; David Purdy; Adrian Stephens; Andrew James; Tomas Peter; Jenn Broda A drama from the Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. Pursued by the Parliamentary Army after the Battle of Worcester, some Royalist soldiers take cover in Dan'l Druce's hut on the Norfolk Coast until they can escape. An event with long shadows that come back to disturb his life fourteen...
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LibriVox recording of A Lincoln Conscript by Homer Greene. Read in English by KevinS A heartwarming novel which visits the last two years of the American Civil War. The center of the story is the conflict of emotions and deeds between a father and son who hold opposing views of the conflict and the surprising role that President Lincoln plays in wishing to reconcile the two. A novel of both pathos and rejoicing. - Summary by KevinS For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of A Voice From Harper's Ferry by Osborne Perry Anderson. Read in English by JR Martin; Jim Locke A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry organized by John Brown. The book details the motivations and preparations for the raid, the events that unfolded over several days in October 1859, and Anderson's subsequent escape. It ends with a short selection of poems...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, American civil war, abolition, US history, john brown
LibriVox recording of Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1, by Moncure D. Conway. Read by volunteer readers. Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly the years of his birth through the end of the US Civil War. (Summary by JoeD) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox...
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LibriVox recording of Anglo-American Memories by George Washburn Smalley. Read in English by David Wales “These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune…. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met, and with events of which I had some personal knowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutive story.” (Preface) Smalley was an American...
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LibriVox recording of Custer , and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Read in English by Kathleen Flanary; Sonia; Jude; Jael Baldwin; Michele Fry; Greg Giordano This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The final poem of this volume is an epic narrative poem glorifying the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who served in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. - Summary by Carolin For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12: American Leaders by John Lord. Read in English by KHand A continuation of United States history, Volume 12 discusses key US leaders in the time up to and including the Civil War. In this volume are presented Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. As noted in the Publisher's Preface, the discussion regarding Lee was written by Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews from the University of...
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LibriVox recording of The Border Bandits by J.W. Buel. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Pmiddy; Shashank Jakhmola; John; Anita Sloma-Martinez; Adrian Stephens ''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters.'' (from the author's sub-title) The James brothers emerged from the Confederate guerrillas to become notorious outlaws of the...
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LibriVox recording of Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War , by Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts. Read by FNH. While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. (Summary by FNH) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
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